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Lädt ... Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selectionvon George Karl
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Karl is very candid in this book about his coaching, his personal life and the abilities of his players, particularly Carmelo Anthony and Gary Payton. Based on the book, I don't sense that he is an easy coach to play for and I think he acknowledges that. He has gotten to the Conference finals but has not been in the NBA championship finals. He is a gutty guy. He has survived various illnesses including cancer. He has bounced around coaching in developmental leagues and overseas. Not the best basketball book that I have read but it is a decent read and some of his comments and criticisms of various NBA stars are spot on. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history--and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever--reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir A man of deep passion and intensity, George Karl earned his bad boy reputation while playing at the University of North Carolina, a rap that continued through the five years he spent with the San Antonio Spurs--and long after he stopped playing. Karl's beery nights, fistfights, and barking followed him into a thirty-five-year coaching career. In a game defined by big stakes and bigger egos, rabid fans and an unforgiving media, Karl was hired and fired a dozen times. After leading a team beset by injuries and with no superstar to its best season of all time--an achievement that earned Karl the title NBA Coach of the Year--he was dumped by the Denver Nuggets in 2013. Less than a year and a half later, Karl was at the helm of the Sacramento Kings, snarling and bellowing on the sidelines before being cut loose in May 2016. Intense, obstinate, and loud, Karl has never backed down from a confrontation, whether with management, officials, or star players, as NBA legends from Allan Iverson to Gary Payton to Carmelo Anthony to Demarcus Cousins can attest. Telling his story, Karl holds nothing back as he speaks out about the game that has defined his life, including the greed, selfishness, and ass-covering he believes are characteristic of the modern NBA player, and the rampant corruption that leads all the way to the office of the NBA commissioner, David Stern. Karl also reveals how he's learned to deal with the personalities, the pressure, and the setbacks with a resilience he acquired from his three bouts with cancer. Raw, hard-hitting, and brutally honest, Furious George is as thrilling, unpredictable, and entertaining as the game that has defined Karl's life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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In fact, the only people he really talks bad about without also explaining how he's become close with them over time, are the people that, as a fan, you pretty much felt the same way about anyway.
I really enjoyed when he talked about his days in Seattle coaching Gary Payton (one of my favorite players), and how Shawn Kemp was (in his opinion) the best player on that team and the dynamic between the two and George himself.
If you like basketball and have any interest in it's history, I would pick this up. However, I didn't seem to feel the same way as a lot of other reviewers about the level of bashing, and actually thought the title and the media attention made it a bit overblown and I was even a bit disappointed in the lack of behind the scenes tomfoolery, if you will. ( )